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Estimating and monetizing the health benefits of improving household energy efficiency in Michigan
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Inefficient residential energy use, which often occurs in conjunction with low-quality housing, raises greenhouse gas emissions and negatively impacts health. Residents may face the “heat-or-eat” dile...
Assessment of Pumped Hydro Energy Storage potential throughout the Great Lakes
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Wind and solar energy both generate power intermittently. To allow these renewables to proliferate while maintaining grid stability, significant energy storage must be developed. The National Renewabl...
Innovative Model to Help Urban Resource Managers Stop Stream Water Quality Degradation Before It Starts
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Graham Catalyst Grant
The grants provide support for small-scale, collaborative, and interdisciplinary sustainability research.
Innovative Model to Help Urban Resource Managers Stop Stream ...
CNAP: Heating with Justice: How can we make electrified space heating equitable?
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Graham Carbon Neutrality Acceleration Program (CNAP)
Carbon neutrality is a global imperative and a top university priority initiated by U-M President Mark Sc...
Creating rapid, transparent, and updateable material flow analyses
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The goal of this project is to improve the speed at which material flow analysis (MFA) is performed and to transparently communicate and reduce the uncertainty in the results, thus enabling a routi...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Building Energy Democracy into City Commitments to 100% Renewable Energy
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There are a number of U.S. cities making and implementing ambitious commitments to transition to 100% renewable energy; however, many of them are unsure of how to meet their commitments. This resea...
MASTER'S PRACTICUM: Determining the Water Baseline for the Ann Arbor 2030 District
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There are currently no established national benchmark averages for water use consumption in buildings. This leaves local governments and districts to create their own methods for establishing a wat...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Modeling Circular Urban Metabolism in Santiago, Chile
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Cities account for over 70% of greenhouse gas emissions and consume over two-thirds of the world’s energy. With the continued rise of urbanization, 68% by 2050 as projected by the UN, cities ...
Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Cyber-Enabled Public Services to Achieve Healthy Communities in America's Changing City Regions
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The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, ...
Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: The Moveable Nexus: Design-led urban food, water and energy management innovation in new boundary conditions of change
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Many cities across the globe are facing difficult challenges managing their food, water and energy systems. The challenges stem from the fact that the issues of food, water and energy are often tightl...
The Sustainability Hoofprint of Cities: A Spatial Model to Assess Transboundary Urban Consumption
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The United States population consumes more meat per capita than any country except for Australia and roughly 80% of this consumption occurs in U.S. cities. This meat is sourced from distant regions...
Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: The FEW-Meter model to measure and improve urban agriculture, shifting it towards circular urban metabolism
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Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Lidia Ponizy, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan - Institute of Physical Geography and Environmental Planning, Poland
Partners: Dr. Jeanne Pourias, AgroParisTec...
Sustainability and Development Conference - Enterprise Funds
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The Sustainability and Development Initiative will focus on sustainable development, utilizing publications, training, and an annual cross-disciplinary Global Conference on Sustainability and Devel...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Roadmap to Water Security
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Goals & Objectives
A great, on-going injustice exists – Michigan, like most states, lacks a public safety net for those unable to afford water and sanitation service. From families sacrific...
Unlocking Widespread Solar Adoption: Understanding Preferences of Low- to Moderate-Income Households to Create Scalable, Sustainable Models
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The U.S. Energy Department is investing $1.35M in a 3-year collaboration between National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, GRID Alternatives, University of Michiga...
CAREER: Computational Approaches for Life Cycle Inventory Database
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ABSTRACT
This research aims to advance the current practice of developing Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) databases into a faster, less expensive process that still generates reliable LCI data. The rese...
Comparing toxic emissions of shale gas and coal for electricity
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Fifteen faculty project teams were awarded support through a water research capacity building initiative from the University of Michigan Water Center. Each team received up to $20,000 to enhance wa...
M-CUBED 2.0: 3-D Printed Buildings
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3-D printing technology has made great strides in recent years. Building construction, however, has remained complex, time consuming, and generates significant construction waste. A challenge of 3-...